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Luke O'Brien

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Luke O'Brien

@lukeobrien

Investigative journalist, magazine writer. 917-284-8226

lukeobrien.com

Joined September 2008

Luke O'Brien
@lukeobrien
Jan 12, 2023
The man holding the door for George Santos is Vish Burra, a Steve Bannon henchman and leader of the New York Young Republican Club. NYYRC is an elite fascist networking nexus with strong ties to far-right foreign political parties. Burra is Santos' "operations director."
Zachary Petrizzo
@ZTPetrizzo
Jan 12, 2023
George Santos struggles to address questions about his character and slips on the newspaper.
Kevin Frey
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Kevin Frey
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Luke O'Brien
@lukeobrien
Jan 8, 2023
Far-right American "Stop the Steal" operatives have been in Brazil stoking this kind of violent unrest for months. People allied with Steve Bannon. Like Matthew Tyrmand, who functions as something of an international fascism supereconnector.
Nathália Urban
@UrbanNathalia
Jan 8, 2023
Bolsonarista terrorists broke down the police barrier and invaded the Congress ramp and threatened to occupy the chamber and the Senate. The Minister of Justice @FlavioDino announced that he is allowing the use of all federal forces against them.
Metrópoles
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Luke O'Brien
@lukeobrien
Jan 9, 2023
Twitter just restored the account of lead Stop the Steal architect Ali Alexander, who used this platform to organize an anti-democratic movement to overthrow American democracy. Alexander is a violence-endorsing far-right fanatic and serial ToS violator.
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Luke O'Brien
@lukeobrien
Nov 13, 2023
In 2020, I proved that Peter Thiel pal Jeff Giesea helped fund the white nationalist movement in America. He gave thousands to Richard Spencer's org & worked closely w/ extremists. The WaPo omits that info from this story, which uses Giesea as a source.
Why Silicon Valley billionaires like Peter Thiel turned against Trump
From washingtonpost.com
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Luke O'Brien
@lukeobrien
Mar 24, 2023
Neo-Nazi collaborator Jack Posobiec appears VERY worried about the Douglass Mackey trial. Why wouldn't he be? Posobiec, a Duginist political operative w/ ties to Trump, was in the DM rooms with the fascists who attacked our country in 2016 and beyond, according to Microchip.
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Luke O'Brien
@lukeobrien
Mar 31, 2023
This is a far more significant verdict than the coverage from the blinkered prestige media suggests. It's already sending a shudder of fear through the far right, which relies on Twitter and other social media to attack democracy.
US Attorney EDNY
@EDNYnews
Mar 31, 2023
Social Media Influencer Douglass Mackey Convicted of Election Interference in 2016 Presidential Race Announced with @NewYorkFBI justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/s…
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Luke O'Brien
@lukeobrien
Jan 12, 2023
Replying to @lukeobrien
The extremists are inside the henhouse. They have American democracy in their crosshairs. Their goal: a version of Viktor Orban's illiberalism here. Santos is clearly a vessel for their program. No wonder pro-Kremlin neo-Nazis love him so:
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Luke O'Brien
@lukeobrien
Jan 12, 2023
Replying to @lukeobrien
Burra worked diligently alongside Bannon and other prominent extremists in an effort to overturn the 2020 election. Now he's strolling the halls of Congress. Here he is meeting the Hungarian ambassador alongside Gavin Wax, the head of NYYRC.
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Luke O'Brien
@lukeobrien
Nov 28, 2023
Gotta be at least one dude at NASA wondering why Congress thought it was a good idea to make the space program dependent on a dope-addled antisemite with three passports.
Elon Musk boosts Pizzagate conspiracy theory that led to D.C. gunfire
From washingtonpost.com
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Luke O'Brien
@lukeobrien
Apr 1, 2023
Douglass Mackey is an antisemitic advocate for global white supremacy who spread neo-Nazi propaganda and tried to trick voters of color out of their votes. Tucker Carlson just called him a "Republican social media influencer." Fair?
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Luke O'Brien
@lukeobrien
Jul 10, 2023
The Republicans' new Hunter Biden "whistleblower" was just indicted for being an agent for China. Also charged with arms trafficking, violating sanctions against Iran and making false statements to the feds. news.yahoo.com/head-us-think-…
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Luke O'Brien
@lukeobrien
Nov 11, 2023
Nobody has undercut the "he's a billionaire so he must be a genius" myth more than Elon. He's actually done society a service in this regard.
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Luke O'Brien
@lukeobrien
Jan 12, 2023
Replying to @lukeobrien
Wax was recently caught by the SPLC advocating "total war" against the enemies of authoritarianism. His remarks came at a NYYRC gala attended by white nationalists, leaders of extreme far-right European parties, George Santos and Marjorie Taylor Greene. splcenter.org/hatewatch/2022…
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Luke O'Brien
@lukeobrien
Mar 21, 2023
White nationalist Trump troll Doug Mackey did not want to answer my questions on his way out of court today with earmuffs on. Pretty sure he could hear me asking him about his connection to Clearview founder Hoan Ton-That.
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